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Suggestions About Re-Organisation: Move & Merge Requests

jimv1 said:
Can our search function handle something like that?
Wouldn’t the simpler ‘Modern-Day Hermits’ be better?
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I don't think it would be better--I think it would be more boring. If there's a SEARCH issue, I will look into it, but we have literally hundreds of threads with this format: Slightly Oblique Reference: Clarifying Complement.

Edit: Search for "Hermits" in the title brings it up as the first and only result.
 
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I posted the above this morning and then get the message about additional posts... view them?
I clicked view them and it duplicated my post (the one above)

So I edited the last duplicate post to say 'auto duplicate post'. But it seems the original disappeared.
 
Yithian said:
I don't think it would be better--I think it would be more boring. If there's a SEARCH issue, I will look into it, but we have literally hundreds of threads with this format: Slightly Oblique Reference: Clarifying Complement.
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Oh I agree that it would be more boring but it would probably be more functional.

Slightly Oblique Reference: Clarifying Complement.

That programme I like: Game of Thrones.

 
jimv1 said:
Can our search function handle something like that?
Wouldn’t the simpler ‘Modern-Day Hermits’ be better?
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It makes no difference to the forum's built-in search function, which is merely looking for word 'hits' anywhere in the title.

If anything, preserving an obliquely-referenced thread title helps in the sense it maintains the oblique reference in case someone remembers the thread under that title.
 
A general note / proposal ...

There are a number of threads dedicated to superstitions, these threads are strewn among multiple sub-forums, and there's considerable overlap among some of them.

I propose to inventory the superstition threads in preparation for migrating them into a single sub-forum.

I nominate Urban Legends & Folklore as the home for superstition threads, because superstitions are part of socially-disseminated 'lore' analogous to UL's and folk tales / remedies. I've primarily encountered academic discussions of superstitions within the context of folklore classes.

I further propose that the UL's & Folklore section be re-titled to indicate its newly expanded topical context - e.g.:

Lore: Folklore, Urban Legends, Superstitions, etc.
 
EnolaGaia said:
A general note / proposal ...

There are a number of threads dedicated to superstitions, these threads are strewn among multiple sub-forums, and there's considerable overlap among some of them.

I propose to inventory the superstition threads in preparation for migrating them into a single sub-forum.

I nominate Urban Legends & Folklore as the home for superstition threads, because superstitions are part of socially-disseminated 'lore' analogous to UL's and folk tales / remedies. I've primarily encountered academic discussions of superstitions within the context of folklore classes.

I further propose that the UL's & Folklore section be re-titled to indicate its newly expanded topical context - e.g.:

Lore: Folklore, Urban Legends, Superstitions, etc.
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Agreed if and only if there is a sufficient number.

Edit: Not 100% sure of the need to rename the forum (for me Folklore includes superstitions), but we can cross that bridge if and when we come to it.
 
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Fair enough ... Here's my summary list of threads dedicated to superstition(s), including one additional thread that doesn't label itself as such ...

Bulls, Bears & Black Cats: Trading on Superstition

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index...ars-black-cats-trading-on-superstition.49717/


The evolution of superstitious and superstition-like behavio

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index...stitious-and-superstition-like-behavio.34778/


Origin of beliefs and superstition

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/origin-of-beliefs-and-superstition.18107/


Superstition

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/superstition.16584/


Superstition From Logic

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/superstition-from-logic.5817/


Magpies: do competing superstitions cancel each other out?

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index...ng-superstitions-cancel-each-other-out.36608/


Rational vs. Irrational Superstitions

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/rational-vs-irrational-superstitions.11014/


Superstitions on the rise

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/superstitions-on-the-rise.8414/


Finns & Witchcraft: Sailors' Superstitions

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/finns-witchcraft-sailors-superstitions.3234/


Personal Superstitions

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/personal-superstitions.3206/#post-54127


Gamblers are a superstitious bunch

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/gamblers-are-a-superstitious-bunch.23392/


ADDITIONAL THREAD RELATING TO SUPERSTITION:

Touching Bronze Statues for Luck

http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/touching-bronze-statues-for-luck.19640/
 
We could have a subforum or whatever just for threads on superstitions.
 
escargot said:
We could have a subforum or whatever just for threads on superstitions.
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I'm happy to create one, but at the moment we haven't gathered enough to populate one.

I'll take a look before long.
 
Yithian said:
I'm happy to create one, but at the moment we haven't gathered enough to populate one.

I'll take a look before long.
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Are you kidding? We have LOADS of threads on superstition.
 
escargot said:
Are you kidding? We have LOADS of threads on superstition.
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I'm sure they are out there, but we haven't got the links in one place for me to move them all to a new sub-forum.
 
escargot said:
Are you kidding? We have LOADS of threads on superstition.
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If you can post 'bare links' (to the first page of the thread, not pages 2, 3, 4 etc.), I will start a new sub-forum as soon as we achieve a critical mass of, say, 40. Enola has already started the ball rolling above.
 
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